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Dec 8, 2021 · 8th December 2021. Gary Oldman and John Hurt in 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'. CREDIT: Alamy. In early 2012, screenwriter Peter Straughan was speaking to a grief counsellor when his phone...
A British screenwriter, Peter Straughan is best known for penning the script for the lauded 2011 espionage drama "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" with his late wife, Bridget O'Connor. Straughan...
Gateshead. Publishers: Methuen Publishing Ltd. Agents: Rod Hall Agency. Biography. Playwright and screenwriter Peter Straughan was born in 1968 and grew up in Gateshead in the north-east of England. He worked as a professional musician and actor and studied English at Newcastle University.
Oct 30, 2012 · Peter Straughan | BAFTA Screenwriters’ Lecture Series. Download. Share. 2.4K. BAFTA/ Steve Butler Ask Peter Straughan what he knows about screenwriting and he’ll tell you: nothing. His lecture, he said, was not so much an insight into how to write for the screen but ‘a thirty-minute apology’ from a man who ‘doesn’t know how he does what he does’.
Feb 14, 2012 · 14 February 2012. Peter Straughan with his Bafta for the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy screenplay. By Tim Masters. Entertainment and arts correspondent, BBC News. Peter Straughan and Bridget...
Feb 14, 2012 · Entertainment and arts correspondent, BBC News. Peter Straughan and Bridget O'Connor turned John Le Carre's classic Cold War novel Tailor Soldier Spy into a Bafta-winning screenplay. Its next...
Peter Straughan is a playwright, screenwriter and author. Straughan co-wrote the 2006 feature film, Mrs. Ratcliffe’s Revolution and adapted Toby Young’s memoir How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. He is the writer of the 2009 film, The Men Who Stare At Goats, and co-writer of the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, for which he was ...